Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 138
Fresh: 121 | Rotten: 17
Visually beautiful and well-acted, Rabbit-Proof Fence tells a compelling true-life story.
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 4
Visually beautiful and well-acted, Rabbit-Proof Fence tells a compelling true-life story.
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After directing a number of major motion pictures in the United States, Australian-born filmmaker Phillip Noyce returned home to make this remarkable adventure-drama, based on a true story as well as a lamentable period in his nation's history. When European settlers first arrived in Australia, there was an almost immediate conflict between the recent arrivals and the nation's indigenous people, whose rich cultural heritage which bore little resemblance to that of the Europeans. By the mid-19th
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Cast
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Everlyn Sampi
Molly Craig -
Tianna Sansbury
Daisy Craig -
Laura Monaghan
Gracie Fields -
David Gulpilil
Moodoo -
Kenneth Branagh
A.O. Neville -
Deborah Mailman
Mavis -
Jason Clarke
Constable Riggs -
Ningali Lawford
Molly's Mother -
Myarn Lawford
Mooly's Grandmother -
Garry McDonald
Mr. Neal -
Roy Billing
Police Inspector -
Andrew S. Gilbert
Depot Manager -
Ken Radley
Fence Worker -
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All Critics (154) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (121) | Rotten (17) | DVD (19)
[Director Phillip] Noyce shows their awful, eventually uplifting journey without flinching, and the arid Australian wilderness is a co-star of the film.
Noyce trusts the power of the story to move us. He knows that, like the girls themselves, we'll find our way along Rabbit-Proof Fence.
It certainly has its moving moments.
The final shot in the film is one that you won't soon forget.
Searing dramatization of a story of remarkable courage, stamina and spirit.
After making several commercial but impersonal actioners, Philip Noyce goes back to his Australian roots with this message film, which is powerful if also simplistic.
Rabbit-Proof Fence aspires to epic status, but it's really more of a well-done genre film...
strongest aspect rests with the educational value of its subject
Powerful drama about racism ok for tweens and up.
Such an amazing true story leaves many opportunities for overblown melodrama, but Noyce's naturalistic restraint is what makes the film resonate so strongly.
Child performances are allways a deal breaker, but Noyce coaxes great range and rage from his child stars. As they trek across the vast land, the camera never gets in the way of focussing its energies on the protagnonists.
Packs such an emotional wallop that it leaves you reeling...It may be one of the greatest movies ever made about the "white man's burden."
The grievous truth of what was done to these people, rather than for them, hits viewers hard in the film's unforgettable conclusion....
Adotando uma estrutura narrativa extremamente simples, Noyce conta a história de forma envolvente e emocionante.
There is value in bringing this dark passage in Australia's history to light.
'Noyce logra su mejor trabajo hasta la fecha, demostrando que lo único que se necesita es la sensibilidad para contar una historia conmovedora y profundamente humana'
A tedious, labored affair that's only not boring when it's laughably over the top.
Phillip Noyce makes us cry not at the way human determination triumphs, but how its mere existence can keep us going through seemingly insurmountable odds.
Perhaps the major reason for its emotional wallop is how Noyce gets a remarkable performance out of his three little road warriors, untrained actors all, whose eyes alone carry enough sadness and determination to break a million hearts.
That the film can still move us despite its imperfections is part of its accomplishment.
The film was based on actual events, and it makes broad statements about racism and human arrogance.
...dramatizes a staggering true story that would be hard to botch.
A haunting film about one of the great escapes of all time.
Its compelling final visual will make you weep.
Audience Reviews for Rabbit-Proof Fence
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- A.O. Neville: Just because people have Neolithic tools, Inspector, doesn't mean they have Neolithic minds.
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- Molly Craig: They make me sick, these people, they make me sick.
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- A.O. Neville: Half-caste children have been gathered up and brought here to give them the benefit of everything our culture has to offer. For if we are to fit and train such children for the future, they cannot be left as they are, and in spite of himself, the native must be helped.
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- A.O. Neville: If only they would understand what we are trying to do for them.
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Foreign Titles
- Long Walk Home (Rabbit Proof Fence) (DE)
- Le Chemin de la liberté (FR)





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